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709844, Some more thoughts.
Posted by bwood, Wed Mar-23-16 10:02 AM
It's clear that Snyder is a gifted visualist but as a storyteller he sucks.

It's also clear that he fundamentally does not understand these characters. Batman is asshole. And one who kills. Superman is not to likable either. To be honest Superman kinda shuffles around scene to scene brooding that the world hates him without giving us, the audience, any real emotion to convey his thoughts.

Speaking of a mopey Superman, can we please for fucks sake have him smile when he rescues a girl from burning building.

The conflict between Batman and Superman feels so forced and not at all genuine. As a matter of fact, Batman makes a lot of bush-league mistakes.

Another problem is this is doing not enough and too much at the same time:

It's a Man of Steel sequel

A Batman movie

A Justice League set up (makes Iron Man 2 look like a work of art by comparison).

And just for shits and giggles the climax is from a popular Superman story that the way it's executed here feels like an afterthought.

Too add to that Doomsday looks like a shit I took 2 days ago. It's bad, bad CG work with no imagination to the design. It's a shame they blew their load on him so early and this badly.

I'll have some more thoughts later today.